The Eighth Annual BAMS Postgraduate Conference: New Work in Modernist Studies 1 December 2018 About the conference The eighth one-day Graduate Conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place on Saturday 1 December at the University of Glasgow (English Literature, School of Critical Studies), in conjunction with the Modernist Network Cymru …

CFP: Reading Joyce’s ‘Aeolus’ London: Saturday, 2 March 2019 Of the 18 episodes of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), ‘Aeolus’ has claims to be among the most neglected. Conspicuously revised after its first appearance in The Little Review in October 1918, it belongs exclusively neither with the opening chapters of Joyce’s novel nor with the more …

Call for Papers: Modernist Art Writing / Writing Modernist Art An International, Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Nottingham, 24–25 June 2019 The sometimes fruitful, sometimes fraught relationships between literature and the visual arts within modernism and the avant-garde have provided rich terrain for scholarly investigation, and for understanding both art and literature …

The Uses of Shopping: Richard Hoggart Goes to Woolworth’s Tuesday 16 October, 6.30pm From The Uses of Literacy all the way to the many autobiographical works of his retirement years, Richard Hoggart wrote about shops and shopping. Quietly resituating the adverse stance of the literary world to all things consumerly, Hoggart, …

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for Modernism in the Home. The conference is set to be held on Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 July 2019 at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the Centre for Modernist Cultures. Studies of modernism and the home are wide-ranging; this …

Call for Papers: ‘Lewis and the Post-War, 1919–1921′ In his autobiography Blasting and Bombardiering (1937), Wyndham Lewis memorably assessed the world in which he found himself on returning from the western front: “We were all in the post-war, but that period produced nothing but a lot of sub-Sitwells and sheep in …

‘Re-presenting David Jones’ (Proposed seminar at American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, 7–10 March, 2019, Georgetown University, Washington, DC) Organizer: Thomas Berenato (University of Virginia) Co-Organizer: Anna Svendsen (University of York) The centenary of the First World War has prompted new publications on and public interest in the life and work of the Anglo-Welsh …